Some hit back from India. Pune's now gone. The defeat on Saturday served as the perfect wake-up call for India, and the second-ranked team took only two days to restablish the order.
For the Windies, this is their second biggest defeat after the 257-run loss to Australia at Sydney in 2015. They lost to India in all aspect of the game, starting with the toss.
And one interesting aspect from the match is – Rohit Sharma (162) outscored the Windies (153). This is the fourth time that an Indian batsman has done it, after Sachin Tendulkar (152) against Namibia (130) at Pietermaritzburg in 2003, Yuvraj Singh (102 not out) against Bangladesh (76) at Dhaka in 2003 and Rohit (264) against Sri Lanka (251) at Kolkata in 2014.
India now take an unassailable 2-1 lead. So what's next? On Thursday, India will try to do just the same when they meet for the last time in the ODI leg of the series.
Result: India win by 224 runs
Man of the Match: Rohit Sharma
Brief score:
India: 377/5 in 50 overs (Rohit Sharma 162, Ambati Rayudu 100; Kemar Roach 2/74).
West Indies: 153 All Out in 36.2 overs. (Jason Holder 54 not out, Marlon Samuels 18; Khaleel Ahmed 3/13, Kuldeep Yadav 3/42).
West Indies Innings; Target 378
Over 36.2 || Score 153 All Out (Jason Holder 54)
From 77/7, Windies have reached 150/9. They are fighting, so to say. The last-wicket stand has survived more than 50 balls. But Kuldeep Yadav got the better of Kemar Roach, bowled.
Wicket: Roach b Kuldeep Yadav 6(27)
Thus India registered their biggest win over the Windies. India's previous biggest winning margin over the Windies was 160 at Vadodara in 2007. Today's 224-run win also India's third biggest win in terms of runs, after 257 against Bermuda in 2007 and 256 against Hong Kong at Karachi in 2008. So, this is effectively India's biggest win. Yes, Bermuda and Hong Kong were only making up the numbers.
Over 33 || Score 145/9 (Jason Holder 50; Kemar Roach 3)
Jason Holder took a single off Ravindra Jadeja's last over to reach his 7th fifty. Windies still need another 233 runs.
Over 28 || Score 132/9 (Jason Holder 40; Kemar Roach 0)
Little entertaining stand from skipper Jason Holder and Keemo Paul. They added 31 runs, defying the Indian attack. But Ravindra Jadeja has done the job for India.
Wicket: Keemo Paul st MS Dhoni b Ravindra Jadeja 19(18); Fall of wicket: 132/9 (27.5 over)
Kemar Roach is the last man for the Windies.
Over 23 || Score 105/8 (Jason Holder 28; Keemo Paul 4)
Kuldeep Yadav and Rohit Sharma combined again to dismiss Ashley Nurse. Pretty simple for India now. But Windies have somehow crossed the 100-run mark.
Wicket: Ashley Nurse c Rohit Sharma b Kuldeep Yadav 8(13); Fall of wicket: 101/8 (22.4 over)
Keemo Paul is the new man.
Over 19 || Score 77/7 (Jason Holder 15; Ashley Nurse 0)
India are all over the Windies. The visitors need another 301 runs from 31 overs, but only three wickets at hand.
Kuldeep Yadav got his first wicket of the evening, in the form of Fabian Allen, caught by Rohit Sharma at slip.
Wicket: Fabian Allen c Rohit b Kuldeep Yadav 10(17); Fall of wicket: 77/7 (18.5 over)
Ashley Nurse is the new man for the Windies.
Over 13 || Score 55/5 (Jason Holder 3; Marlon Samuels 18)
Khaleel Ahmed got his second. Cleaned up Rovman Powell. Two in two overs for the young bowler. Powell, going for a drive, but the ball beat him. Off stump knocked off.
Wicket: Fabian Allen c Rohit b Kuldeep Yadav 10(17); Fall of wicket: 47/5 (11.3 over)
Skipper Jason Holder joined Marlon Samuels. Damage already done by two direct hits, resulting in the wickets of Shai Hope and Kieran Powell.
Over 10 || Score 45/4 (Marlon Samuels 12; Rovman Powell 0)
After two good overs, Windies lost another wicket. Khaleel Ahmed trapped Shimron Hetmyer in front.
Wicket: Shimron Hetmyer lbw b Khaleel Ahmed 13(11); Fall of wicket: 45/5 (9.3 over)
Hetmyer, before facing Khaleel, hit Jasprit Bumrah for two fours in the eighth over. In the next over, Samuels hit a couple of boundaries against Bhuvneshwar Kumar. In those two overs, they scored 19 runs.
Rovman Powell is the new man.
Over 4 || Score 20/0 (Chandrapaul Hemraj 14; Kieran Powell 4)
Steady start from the Windies with Chandrapaul Hemraj taking on Bhuvneshwar Kumar. BHuvi has given 19 runs from his two overs, while Jasprit Bumrah has leaked only a single from his two overs.
Rohit Sharma and Ambati Rayudu struck belligerent centuries to guide India to a mammoth 377 for five against the West Indies in the penultimate ODI of the five-match series.
Rohit's (162) 21st career century came off 137 balls with the help of 20 fours and four hits over the fence while Rayudu decorated his 100-run knock with eight boundaries and four sixes.
Opting to bat after winning the toss, India made a quick start with Rohit and Shikhar Dhawan (38) adding a run-a-ball 71 for the opening stand before the latter pulled a Keemo Paul short delivery straight to Kieran Powell at the midwicket boundary.
Rohit displayed all shots in the book -- be it drives, pulls, flicks or cuts before he departed in the 44th over, after being caught by Chanderpaul Hemraj off Ashley Nurse.
Rayadu, on the other hand, took time to settle down, but later hammered the bowlers with his exquisite stroke-play -- first in Rohit's company and then alongside veteran Mahendra Singh Dhoni (23).
India Innings
Over 50 || Score 377/5 (Kedar Jadhav 16; Ravindra Jadeja 7)
India lost a couple of wickets towards the end but still managed to post a huge total of 377 runs.
Wicket: Ambati Rayudu run out (Fabian Allen) 100(81); Fall of wicket: 344/4 (47.1 over)
Wicket: MS Dhoni c Hemraj b Roach 23(15); Fall of wicket: 355/5 (48.3 over)
In the last five overs, India added 53 runs. Kedar Jadhav hit three fours to score 16 off seven balls.
Over 47 || Score 344/3 (Ambati Rayudu 100; MS Dhoni 15)
India added another 55 runs to the total. Ambati Rayudu and MS Dhoni have added 32 runs as the Windies bowlers looked clueless.
Over 44 || Score 313/3 (Ambati Rayudu 85; MS Dhoni 1)
Ashley Nurse ended a double-century stand between Rohit Sharma and Ambati Rayudu. Top edge caught at point.
Wicket: Rohit c Hemraj b Nurse 162(137); Fall of wicket: 312/3 (43.5 over)
MS Dhoni joined Rayudu in the centre. Golden chance for the former India captain to get some runs.
Over 39 || Score 252/2 (Rohit Sharma 120; Ambati Rayudu 69)
Rohit Sharma brought up his 21st ODI hundred with a four off the third ball of the 33rd over, bowled by Fabian Allen.
India have added 42 runs in the last five overs.
Over 31 || Score 181/2 (Rohit Sharma 94; Ambati Rayudu 24)
Drinks!
Rohit Sharma six runs from his 21st ODI hundred. India added another 40 runs in the last five overs, and Rohit-Rayudu stand is now worth 80 from 86 balls.
Over 27 || Score 156/2 (Rohit Sharma 77; Ambati Rayudu 16)
In the last five overs, India added 32 more runs with Rohit Sharma and Ambati Rayudu stitching a half-century stand for the third wicket.
Over 19 || Score 109/2 (Rohit Sharma 41; Ambati Rayudu 6)
Virat Kohli departed early, caught behind. He tried to guide the ball down to the third man area but committed too much.
Wicket: Virat Kohli c Shai Hope b Kemar Roach 16(17); Fall of wicket: 101/2 (16.4 Over)
Ambati Rayudu joined Rohit Sharma in the centre.
Over 14 || Score 85/1 (Rohit Sharma 33; Virat Kohli 6)
India lost opener Shikhar Dhawan in the 12th over, as he failed to convert the start. Caught at mid-wicket by Kieran Powell off the bowling of Keemo Paul.
Wicket: Shikhar Dhawan c Kieran Powell b Keemo Paul 38(40); Fall of wicket: 71/1 (11.5 Over)
And that brought skipper Virat Kohli in the centre.
Rohit and Kohli hit Keemo Paul for a four each, off the first and fifth balls respectively.
Over 11 || Score 63/0 (Rohit Sharma 26; Shikhar Dhawan 34)
Bowling change for the Windies. Jason Holder introduced spinner Ashley Nurse and was hit for back-to-back fours by Shikhar Dhawan, off the last two balls of the 8th over.
But the Windies managed to silence the Indian openers in the next two overs, giving away only two and three runs respectively. Holder was brilliant in the ninth over.
Then, Rohit Sharma hit the last ball of the 11th over, bowled by Holder, for a four.
Over 7 || Score 42/0 (Rohit Sharma 17; Shikhar Dhawan 24)
Shikhar Dhawan has hit a couple of sixes. He picked Jason Holder's full delivery to start the 6th over with a six. Flat six over square leg boundary. Nine runs from the over.
He started the next over with a six too. Another pick-up shot over the mid-wicket boundary. Eight runs from the over.
Over 5 || Score 25/0 (Rohit Sharma 16; Shikhar Dhawan 8)
Kemar Roach and Jason Holder continued with the new ball. Skipper leaked only three runs in the fourth over, but Roach was not so lucky. Rohit hit the penultimate ball of the next over for a huge six, some 99 metre long. Nine runs from the over.
Over 3 || Score 13/0 (Rohit Sharma 9; Shikhar Dhawan 4)
Four runs from the third over, a boundary from the blade of Shikhar Dhawan. The left-handed opener stood tall and found the gap through cover. Roach has conceded nine runs from two runs.
In the previous over, Skipper Jason Holder, despite conceding a boundary off the first ball, managed to produce five dot balls. Four runs from the second over.
Over 1 || Score 5/0 (Rohit Sharma 5; Shikhar Dhawan 0)
Good first over for India. Rohit Sharma hit the first delivery for a four, played uppishly over cover, then took a single. Shikhar Dhawan blocked the remaining four deliveries. Kemar Roach's not happy.
For the first time at Brabourne, a bell was rung to announce the start of the match. And doing the honours was none other than Sachin Tendulkar, in the presence of dignitaries.
India captain predicts a high-scoring match. Here's what he said: "We're going to bat first. Looks like a pretty nice and hard surface. There is not much dew around in the second innings is what we've heard and the ball tends to move around in the evening."
And he sounded confident of India's batting line-up, yes, with Jhadhav and Jadeja on.
"This is generally a high-scoring ground and this looks a good wicket. We've got depth in our batting today so we can really go hard and ask them to chase it down," he added.
Windies captain said they are happy bowling first.
"We are happy to bowl first. The last game is gone. Credit to the boys [for their performance]. The series is tied 1-1 and we are geared up to go," he said.
Toss
Virat Kohli won toss for the fourth time in the series. And India will bat first. Kedar Jadhav and Ravindra Jadeja are back, in place of Rishabh Pant and Yuzvendra Chahal, for India, while Keemo Paul replaced Obed McCoy in the Windies XI.
Playing XIs:
India: Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, Virat Kohli(c), Ambati Rayudu, MS Dhoni(w), Kedar Jadhav, Ravindra Jadeja, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Kuldeep Yadav, K Khaleel Ahmed, Jasprit Bumrah
Windies: Kieran Powell, Chandrapaul Hemraj, Shai Hope(w), Marlon Samuels, Shimron Hetmyer, Rovman Powell, Jason Holder(c), Fabian Allen, Ashley Nurse, Kemar Roach, Keemo Paul
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(With Agendy inputs)
